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G. W. GREEN.

TOLL GATE.

No. 362,95 Patented May 17, 1-887.

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PATENT CHARLES IV. GREEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

TOLLeGATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,955, dated May 17, 1887.

Application filed October 2, i886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES XV. GREEN, of Brooklyn, in the county ot' Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Toll-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of gates designed to serve as a substitute for turnstiles at ferries, railroad-stations, and other places where it is desirable that the passage of each individual therethrough shall be recorded or registered.

My invention is more particularly designed to be used in connection with suitable recording mechanismsueh, for example, as is very commonly used in connection with turnstiles.

My invention comprises certain novel combinations of parts, whereby a very simple, durable, effective and easily-operated gate apparatus is provided for the purposes above indicated.

Figure l is a side elevation showing a gate apparatus made according to my said invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken in the line a: ze of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken in the line y y of Figs. l and 2.

A and B are two gates, which are arranged to move in substantially parallel planes and in suitable horizontal grooves or guides at the top and bottom. These guides may be of any usual orsuitabl'e kind appropriate to sliding gates or doors. Preferably, however, each gate is provided with hangers a, which pass over and slide upon the horizontal rods C, which are suitably journaled in the frame, as illustrated in Fig. l, the lower end of each gate being kept from lateral displacement by being placed in a horizontal groove at or near the iioor or ground-iu other words, at the lower end of the gate. These gates are connected by meehanism, as hereinafter explained, so that when one gate is closed the other will be opened, and vice versa. In other words, the party passing through the gateway and opening the gate in front of him will cause the other gate to close behind him, so that the said other gate will prevent thc entrance of a second person until the first-mentioned gateis closed and the other gate is opened. These movements of the gates being automatically registered by suitable mechanism, the number of persons passing through the gateway may be accurately registered.

On the gate B is a rack, D, into which gears Serial No. 215,141. (No model.)

a toothed sector, E, the shaft or `journal b of which works in bearings in a bracket, c, which is suitably affixed to the adjacent stationary frame-work E of the gates. On the shaft or journal b of the sector E is a spur-pinion, G, which gears into a second toothed sector, H, which is journaled, as shown at d, in a bracket, c, which, like the bracket c, is affixed to the gate-framc F, or to any other suitable fixed support.

The gateAis connected by a rod or pitman, I, with the circumference of the sector H, as shown in the dotted outline at f in Fig. 2. A spring, K, is connected with the gate A at one end, and at the other to a fixed support in such manner as to tend to close the gate A, and consequently to open the gate B. A supplemental spring, L, is similarly attached to the gate E in such manner as to tend to open the same, and consequently to tend to close the gate A through the mechanism connect` ing the same, as just described. In the operation of the apparatus the party passing inward through the gateway passes the open door B, and reaching the gate A, slides t-he same to open it, whereupon the sector H is turned by means of the rod or pitman I, and, transmitting motion through the pinion G, sector E, and rack D, closes the gate B behind the person so passing. W'hen the gate A is released, its return or closing and the return or opening motion of the gate B are insured by the action ol' the springs K and L.

"What I claim as my invention is- 1. In a toll-gate, the combination of two horizontal sliding gates adapted to move in substantiall y parallel planes, and having separate guideways, and mechanism consisting of toothed sectors, a pinion, and a rack connecting said gates, whereby the movement of one aetuatcs the other in an opposite direction, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the two `sliding v IOC 

